The Metroidvania genre has exploded in popularity over the years, leading to all kinds of interesting takes on the formula. Metroidvanias break down into offering a map full of rooms that gradually ...

The place where I grew up has a body. To anyone passing through on the way to Boston, it may look like every other small town in Massachusetts, but I know what’s underneath the skin. Main Street is ...

The dichotomy of the Metroidvania as a genre is an interesting one. Its world is always ruined, cruel, hostile, perhaps once beautiful, now broken, but the genre asks you to imagine that it wasn’t ...

Take a look at the 'Visions of the Vessel' Trailer for MIO: Memories in Orbit, a Metroidvania exploration platformer developed by Douze Dixiemes. Players can explore the Vessel, containing a vast ...

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Play as MIO, a nimble robot who awakens alone aboard the Vessel—a vast, drifting spaceship left in ruin. Once maintained by AI caretakers known as the Pearls, the Vessel is now overrun by wild ...

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Disney+ unveiled Korea–Japan series Merry Berry Love (working title), starring Ji Changwook (The Manipulated) and Mio Imada (Tokyo Revengers). The romantic comedy follows a down-on-luck Korean spatial ...